MCCCXVIII. . It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of truth shows much that we can not, and all that we would not see. In a face dimpled with smiles, it has often discovered malevolence and envy, and detected under jewels and brocade, the frightful forms of poverty and distress. A fine hand of cards have changed before it into a thousand spectres of sickness, misery, and vexation; and immense sums of money, while the winner counted them with transport, have, at the first glimpse of this unwelcome lustre, vanished from before him.Mulso. MCCCXIX. He strikes no coin, 'tis true, but coins new phrases, And vends them forth as knaves vend gilded counters, Which wise men scorn, and fools accept in payment. old Play. MCCCXX. O you gods! what a number Of men eat Timon, and he sees them not! I wonder, men dare trust themselves with men! Is the readiest man to kill him: It has been proved. Were a huge man, I should fear to drink at meals; MCCCXXI. The study of truth is perpetually joined with the love of virtue; for there's no virtue which derives not its original from truth; as, on the contrary, there is no vice which has not its beginning from a lie. Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies.-Casaubon. MCCCXXII. Our cider and Perry Make a man mad, but not merry; Or reel any whither. It stuffs up our brains with froth and with yeast, That if one would write but a verse for a bellman, He must study till Christmas for an eight shilling jest, These liquors won't raise, but drown and o'erwhelm On Canary-Brome. man. MCCCXXIII. Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude: for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation which he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehensions of punishment.—Goldsmith. MCCCXXIV. Well the learned and the judicious know, For, as when painters form a matchless face, They from each fair one catch some different grace; To which no single beauty must pretend: So poets oft do in one piece expose Whole belles assemblees of coquets and beaux. Epilogue to the Way of the World.—Congreve. MCCCXXV. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form, in moving, how exVOL. II. Ff press and admirable! In action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?-Shakspeare. MCCCXXVI. Give me a look, give me a face, They strike mine eyes, but not mine heart. Ben Jonson Ambition, 41, 221, 345, 378, 401, 411, 594, 861, 873, 1242 Ancestry, 406 Benefits, 278, 297, 301, 313, 317, Books, 32, 349, 709, 725, 755, 945, Bribery, 56, 618, 675,957 Canary, 1322 Candour, 233 Anger, 10, 66, 105, 118, 171, 302, Caprice, 615, 984 Antiquarians, 531, 677, 808 1031 Appetite, 152 Applause, 482 Artifice, 997 Argument, 128, 218 Astrology, 771 Atheism, 876 Avarice, 37, 70, 108, 119, 167, 293, Bankrupt, 174 Cards, 168, 269 Caution, 988, 1025 Ceremony, 1216, 1268, 1274 Charity, 1297 Cheerfulness, 441, 481 Chess, game of, 566 Chronology, 183 Colonies, 1300 Church, the, 638, 1251 Company, 160, 165, 194, 256, 447, Confidence, 225 Conscience, 880, 1114 Bashfulness, 681 Barbers, 189 Bath, efficacy of, 359 Beauty, 183, 197, 241, 396, 610, Constancy,931 Content, 257, 334, 721, 780, 1122, Deafness, remedy for, 420 Deceit, 151, 529 Deference, 67 Election, day of, 787 English, Social Character of, 906 Exile, remedy for, 1152 Experience, 321, 333, 400, 573, Eye, the, 651,779, 885, 1260 Fame, 15, 299, 363, 459, 718, 728, Dependents, 486, 515, 605, 1203, Fan, uses of, 30 1224 Dreams, 551, 933 Dress,457, 617, 687, 1172 Fancy, 1205 Fashion, 5, 380, 1123 Favourite, 895, 922 Fear, 204, 390, 732, 757, 1323 Fiddle-playing, 144 Filial Obedience, 1192 Finery, 448, 1240 Firmament, the, 994 Flattery, 258, 322, 487, 559, 707, Fools, 72, 143, 181, 288, 311, 584, Foppery, 1288 Foreign Novelty, 1038 Drunkenness, 89, 90, 91, 508, 572, Forgiveness, 59, 60, 750 703, 823, 856, 866, 1220 Dulness, 11, 593, 1217 Earth, destruction of, 905 Fortune,9,634, 775, 783, 983, 1235, French, habits of the, 510 |